The History of Our United States - Chapter 15
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 immigrant | person who leaves his own country to make his home in another country |
| industry | the manufacturing business; a kind of work that uses factories to make things |
| pony express | mail service which used fast horses to carry the mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California |
| telegraph | machine that sends messages over long distances through wire by electricity |
| Morse code | system of short and long dots and dashes to be clicked over telegraph wires |
| assembly line | method of production where each worker has his own special job to do |
| Charles Finney | brilliant lawyer who became one of America's greatest revival preachers |
| Dwight L. Moody | America's most famous evangelist at the end of the 1800's; founder of Moody Bible Institute |
| Billy Sunday | baseball star who became a famous evangelist |
| Adoniram Judson | missionary who served for many years in Burma and became known as the Father of American Missions |
| George Liele | America's first missionary to a foreign land; probably the first ordained black preacher in America |
| Andrew Carnegie | man who built the steel industry in America |
| Sir Henry Bessemer | Englishman who developed a method of turning iron ore into steel |
| John D. Rockefeller | man who organized the oil industry in America |
| Robert Fulton | man who developed the first sucessful steamboat |
| Clermont | Robert Fulton's first successful steamboat |
| Samuel Morse | man who invented the telegraph and developed Morse code |
| Alexander Graham Bell | teacher of deaf-mutes who invented the telephone |
| Thomas A. Watson | Alexander Graham Bell's assistant |
| Thomas Alva Edison | man who invented the light bulb, the phonograph, and many other things |
| Henry Ford | man who developed the assembly line and used it to build the Model T, an inexpensive car that nearly every American family could afford |
| Orville and Wilbur Wright | brothers who built and flew the first successful airplane |
| Robert Goddard | man who launched the first successful liquid-fueled rocket ever built |
| Jan Ernst Matzeliger | man who desiged the first shoe-lasting machine |
| Garrett A. Morgan | man who invented the gas mask and the traffic light signal with red, yellow and green lights |
| Menlo Park, New Jersey | location of the laboratory where Thomas Edison did most of his experiments |
| Kitty Hawk, North Carolina | place where the Wright brothers made their first successful airplane flights |
| 1844 | Morse sends the first message over the telegraph |
| 1876 | Bell builds his first telephone |
| 1903 | Wright brothers make the first airplane flight |
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